Improvement in needle-wrappers



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GEORGE H. BLELOGH, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN NEEDLE-WR-APPE RS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,592, dated November27, 1877 application filed March 12, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. BLELOCH, of Springfield, in the county ofHampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Sewing-Machine- Needle Wrappers, which improvement isclearly set forth in the accompanying specification and drawing.

Heretofore sewing-machine needles have been put up in packages of onehundred of a size or number in one wrapper; also, packages of them havebeen made up containing twenty-five, or ten, or.different quantities ofassorted sizes or dozens but generally in the wrappers or package inbulk, not stuck into the wrapper.

' Sewing-machineneedles put up as above stated are necessarilysubiected,when in the hands of the retailer, to much handling for the purpose ofselectingthe sizes re'quiredbythe purchaser, and being loose in anordinaryneedle-case, they must be taken in the hands for the abovepurpose. Frequent handling of highly-polished .needles causes them tobecome badly rusted by coming in contact with the moisture of the hands,and, as a consequence, the needles bec0me,'in a measure, renderedunsuited for sewmg.

Also, the practice of putting up considerable numbers of one ordifferent sizes in a package, or of keeping them for sale in bulk in acompartment needle-case, occasions much inconvenient mixing of sizes, somuch so as to make a person who may be selecting a needle from suchpackage or case feel obliged to examine the marked size of. the needle,as stamped upon it, before putting it in the machine.

The object of my invention is to provide a more convenient andeconomical needle-wrapper for sewing-machine needles, which shallobviate the before-mentioned objections, and furnish for retailingpurposes a wrapper in which said needles are stuck and folded in such amanner that the sizes are kept separate, and that the needles can behandled and examined by the purchaser conveniently, Without having totouch the needles themselves; and, furthermore, such a wrapper aspermits of so folding it around the needles after they are stuck thereinthat a portion of the length of the needles is in sight on both sides ofthe wrapper, and the balance of the length of the needles is covered byhaving a part of the wrapper folded over it.

The said wrappers are chemically prepared, so as to act as a preventiveto rust on the needles.

In the drawing, Ais the wrapper; B, the several groups of needles uponit; D D D D, the figure and letter spaces on the gradingplan at the endof the needles, over which are shown letters and figures giving thetradesizes of the needles stuck under the plan.

My wrappers are made to be folded up, nearly covering the groups of theneedles on the front, leaving exposed their points as they lie againstthe stamped or printed grade-spaces on the wrapper, and the sides areafterward folded backw ardly together, in such a way that the two outersides of the wrapper exposed to view show the points of the needlestherein, their grades for silk and thread, and their trade numbers orletters.

What I claim as my invention is-- s A needle -wrapper consisting of thesections B B, in which the needles are stuck, and the sections A A A,constructed and combined substantially as described, whereby, when saidsections A A A are folded, a portion of the length of the needles isleft in sight on both sides of the wrapper, as set forth.

GEO. H. BLELOOH.

Witnesses LEWIS DART, W. H. CHAPIN.

